Join us for a photographic journey through Israel and the West Bank at the Brooklyn Museum with the

Join us for a photographic journey through Israel and the West Bank at the Brooklyn Museum with the exhibition, This Place. This beautiful, complex, and profound part of the world was photographed by twelve internationally acclaimed artists: Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Josef Koudelka, Martin Kollar, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington. Their work represents the culmination of a years-long project initiated by Brenner, whose photographs are also on view.Brenner invited these artists, none of whom are from Israel or Palestine, to come to the region and make new work. Between 2009 and 2012 the photographers spent an average of six months in residence in Israel and the West Bank. They were free to make whatever images they chose, in whatever manner they chose. Some made black-and-white pictures, some color; some made only one dazzling image, some made hundreds; some used digital technology, some used old-fashioned large-format cameras… The result is a multifaceted, nuanced, and deeply humanistic view of the place, and a far cry from the kinds of polarizing images so often found in the mainstream news media. Yet despite the diversity of perspectives on view, several key themes resonate in the exhibition, including family, community, identity, and the environment. Thanks to these artists we can gain a deeper understanding of the people, places, and things that make Israel and the West Bank such a fascinating, if troubled, place. Posted by Cora MichaelImage: Wendy Ewald (American, born 1951). At Home, photograph by Amal, Negev Desert, 2012. for This Place © Wendy Ewald, all rights reserved -- source link

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